Lorraine

Lorraine can refer to:

• the independent duchy and later French province of Lorraine: see Lorraine (province).
• the modern-day French administrative région of Lorraine, which is larger than the historical province of Lorraine, as it includes other provinces and areas which historically were separate from Lorraine proper: see Lorraine (région).

The name Lorraine and the territory that became the historical province of that name are both derived from the medieval duchy Lotharingia, from 959 divided into the duchies of Lower Lotharingia and Upper Lotharingia (the latter of which became modern Lorraine).

Other Usage

Various places and things have been named after the French province:

• Lorraine, Kansas (USA)
• Lorraine, New York (USA)
• Lorraine, Ontario (Canada)
• Lorraine, Quebec (Canada)
• the French battleship Lorraine, of World War II
• Lorraine was the code name used by Amiga Corporation for their home computer project later called the Amiga

Lorraine is also used as a feminine name, above all in the US and Canada, after World War I, during which events brought Lorraine to the North American public imagination. Famous people with this name, none of them French, include:

• Lorraine Bracco - actress (The Sopranos)
• Lorraine Davies - country singer
• Lorraine Hansberry - American playwright (1930-1965)
• Lorraine Kelly - Scottish TV journalist
• Lorraine Baines McFly - Marty McFly's mother in the Back to the Future trilogy
• Lorraine Segato - Canadian pop singer-songwriter

• Sweet Lorraine (1940), is a song recorded by Nat King Cole.

Variations include:

• Lori
• Lorri
• Lorrie

"Laura" and "Lareine" (French, la reine or Queen) have distinct origins unconnected with "Lorraine".

Variations

Lorain

• Lorain, Ohio
• Lorain County, Ohio
• Lorain, Wisconsin
• Lorain, Pennsylvania

Loraine

• Loraine, Illinois
• Loraine, North Dakota
• Loraine, Texas

Lorrain

• Lorrain language
• Claude Lorrain, (Claude Gelee, ca. 1600 - 1682), a baroque French painter

Toponymic variations

• Lothringen - German, Finnish
• Lorena - Spanish
• Lorena (Francia) - Italian
• Lotharingia - Hungarian
• Lotharingen - Dutch
• Lorena (França) - Portuguese
• Лотарингия - Russian